01670nam 2200349 450 991057174760332120230507042134.0(CKB)5860000000046919(NjHacI)995860000000046919(EXLCZ)99586000000004691920230507d2006 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPaul Gauguin Un Esotismo Controverso /Maria Grazia MessinaFirenze, Italy :Firenze University Press,2006.1 online resource (202 pages)88-5518-824-0 In this book, Gaugin's exoticism, the inexhaustible subject of mythical constructions, is re-examined within the framework of the complex contemporary interferences between Symbolist culture and the pressure of colonial policies. Various perspectives are adopted, from the analysis of the theme of the mask in the self-portraits, to the literary suggestions or those evoked by the Universal Exhibition of 1889. There is also a re-reading of the sojourns in Brittany and Oceania, designed to clarify the links between exoticism and nostalgia: a definition of the evasion in space as the substitute for a regression in time, in search of a dimension of the origins from which modern man is by now debarred.Paul Gauguin Exoticism in artExoticism in art.759.05Messina Maria Grazia32469NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910571747603321Paul Gauguin2261439UNINA